Research

Ongoing Projects

Research at SSAA has is a constant endeavor by both students and faculty members on a wide range of subjects in architecture and design. Research by students includes- projects for NASA, independent research projects, academic research for dissertation and thesis, etc. Most of the SSAA faculty members hold a Master’s degree in specialized field, a few have finished doctorate at reputed institutions. With this variety of expertise within faculty, students are encouraged to undertake research across the wide range of topics at

SSAA’s recently set-up ‘Documentation and Archives’ cell is envisioned as the laboratory for experimentation in field of scholarly and social research by both students and faculty members. In the last 25 years of the School, the students have undertaken academic research on a wide variety of topics including- sociology, architectural theory, history, heritage, urban design and renewal, etc.

The recently constituted Research Cell at SSAA is still to bag grants for major research. Faculty at SSAA is involved in several research endeavours at individual level. These are reflected in their independent profile pages.
Structure:We are defining research in Sushant School of Art and Architecture as an inclusive field, with the focus on activities that are supported by multiple methodologies of collecting and making sense of data; consciously selected theoretical positions; synthesis; and meaningful findings or actions. The research at SSAA can be streamed in the following categories-

Making: Construction, materials, technologies, management

Keeping: Heritage conservation, preservation, mapping, reuse

Inhabiting: Interiors, Urbanism, city planning

Designing: Theories, tools, products, and practices

Thinking: Theories, philosophies, epistemologies in/of architecture

Some of the research interests of faculty members can be seen here.

Staff

Research Interests

Research Stream

Manisha

Study and Redevelopment/ Rejuvination of urban spaces in Gurgaon

Designing

Aruna

Museums, adaptive re-use; dissertation on transit oriented development; objectivity and subjectivity in planning process; urban India and city centres; implementation processes not in place; focus is on objectivity and subjectivity, global and local and new urbanisation and looks at contextual and identity

Designing

Sweety

self-sustainable house; in terms of all services, all energy, and zero discharge and green building; smart cities

Urban Growth in Gurgaon-Planning for an Unplanned city, Future of Urban growth in Urban Extensions, Inclusive planning, Neighborhood typology in India –Study for a sustainable module, Urban conservation of lost spaces

Theory of Architecture and Urban Design; Urban and Sub-Urban Landscape Planning; Strategies and Methodologies in Teaching of Design; Strategic Design Models — User Intervention, Community Participation and the Role of Architects/ Design Professionals; Retrofitting of Existing Environments; Planning and Design of Transient and Impermanent Spaces.

Planning and Development Laws: Court Cases, Institutional Responses and Implications for Planned Development, ‘Organised by The School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi and Town and Country Planning Organisation, as part of the HUDCO Chair activities, Institute Of Town Planers India, New Delhi, 25th – 27th September, 2014.

National Seminar on ‘Public Participation in Planning’, ‘Organised by The School of Planning and Architecture (SPA), New Delhi as part of the HUDCO Chair activities, on 22 and 23 January, 2015.